Description

Altera^® Cyclone^® IV GX FPGA Development Kit provides a comprehensive, best-in-class design environment to quickly begin developing low-cost and low-power FPGA system-level designs. This kit helps to shorten your product’s development cycle so that you can meet your product’s time to market and production milestones. With this platform, you can:

• Develop and test PCI Express^® Gen1 x1, x2, x4 endpoint designs using the Cyclone IV GX PCI Express hard intellectual property (IP) and PCI-SIG^® -compliant board
• Develop and test multi-lane protocol bridging designs using on-board DDR2 memory and through its expansion capability, the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors. There are over 30 different HSMCs available through Altera partners and supporting protocols such as CPRI, SATA, and SDI.
• Come up to speed quickly with your FPGA design by reusing the example designs provided by the kit's Board Test System.
• Use the kit´s host board as design model for your product’s low-cost and low-power board.

• Featured device

  • Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX150N FPGA in a F896 package

  Configuration status and set-up elements

  • Passive serial (PS) configuration via a MAX^® II EPM2210 CPLD and flash memory
  • On-board USB-Blaster^TM download cable using Quartus^® II Programmer

  Clocks

  • On-board clock oscillators: 50 MHz, 100 MHz (programmable), and 125 MHz
  • SMA connectors for external clock input
  • SMA connectors for clock output

  General user input and output

  • LEDs
  • LCD display
  • Push button and dual in-line package (DIP) switches

  Memory devices

  • 128-megabytes (MB) DDR2 SDRAMs with a 32-bit data bus
  • 64-MB sync flash and 4-MB SSRAM

  Component and interfaces

  • PCI Express edge connector
  • 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
  • Two HSMC connectors
  • Power measurement circuitry

  Power

  • Laptop DC input
  • PCI Express edge connector power

  Other features

  • PCI Express short card form factor
  • RoHS-compliant

  Altera Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Board Block Diagram